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After the Primary: The Quiet Discipline That Holds Local Politics Together

In the weeks following a hard-fought primary like the one we just witnessed in Butler County, Ohio, the atmosphere shifts noticeably. Yard signs disappear from lawns and intersections, the barrage of text messages and robocalls slows to a trickle, and former rivals find themselves sharing space at the same community events. For those of us who have spent years immersed in local party work—not as officeholders, but as volunteers, observers, strategists, and commentators—the true measure of success is not the drama of election night. It is the steady, often invisible labor that follows: rebuilding unity, channeling energy toward the general election, and recommitting to the unglamorous tasks that make self-government possible at the county level. 

I have watched these cycles unfold in Butler County for a long time. It is a place I know intimately, not through national headlines but through precinct meetings, central committee sessions, and the day-to-day effort of turning out voters in all kinds of weather. The 2026 Republican primary for county commissioner stands out, not because it was exceptionally bitter by historical standards, but because it offered a clear illustration of how functional parties operate. The Butler County Republican Party, under Executive Chairman Todd Hall, held an endorsement process that produced a strong 71% vote for challenger Michael Ryan at the pre-primary meeting. Incumbent Commissioner Cindy Carpenter, a long-serving public servant with her own record of accomplishment, ran without seeking the party’s formal endorsement and fell short in the May 5 primary, with Ryan securing approximately 72% of the vote to her 28%. In a heavily Republican county, that primary outcome effectively decided the seat, but the real story lies in what the process revealed about leadership, temperament, and organizational resilience. 

This was not chaos or machine-style imposition. It was a party mechanism functioning as intended. Primaries exist to force choices, even among candidates who broadly share a philosophical outlook. In deep-red counties like Butler, the spring contest is often where the substantive debate occurs. The party’s role is not to crown unopposed victors but to test candidates through transparent processes, consolidate support when possible, and then pivot the full organizational weight behind the nominee. What I observed here reinforced a conviction I have held for years: well-functioning local parties remain among the most effective tools for translating citizen energy into accountable governance.

My own role in these circles has been to work to amplify grassroots voices through platforms like my blog and commentary. What experience has taught me is that county-level party leadership is rarely about top-down command. It is mediation under pressure—navigating meetings where ambitions collide, volunteers grow weary, and donors press for results. Figures like Chairman Hall bring institutional memory that newer participants often overlook. They understand that endorsements derive legitimacy from process: votes cast by elected central committee members who answer to their precincts. A decisive majority, as occurred with Ryan’s 71% endorsement, gives the organization moral authority to call for unity afterward without pretending differences never existed.

Critics of the outcome, particularly those aligned with the incumbent, raised reasonable concerns rooted in experience versus renewal. Carpenter had served multiple terms, bringing continuity to county issues such as development, infrastructure, and fiscal management. Ryan, a former Hamilton city councilmember, embodied a generational shift and demonstrated strong grassroots appeal. Both sides presented legitimate visions. The endorsement vote did not suppress those arguments; it subjected them to public scrutiny during the primary. Voters rendered their verdict decisively. That is precisely how the system is designed to work. Absent such a mechanism, contests devolve into pure personality clashes or contests dominated solely by fundraising. With it, even a well-qualified incumbent has the opportunity to make their case directly to the electorate—as Carpenter did—while the party fulfills its role as aggregator and tester of support.

What remains largely invisible to outsiders is the volunteer economy that sustains these efforts. In Midwestern counties like Butler, the Republican organization depends on individuals who participate not for pay or prestige but because they view unstructured, celebrity-driven alternatives as inferior. These are precinct captains making calls after full workdays, sign teams braving cold mornings along highways, and committee members debating platform details that never reach cable news. The labor includes maintaining accurate voter data, training poll watchers, coordinating logistics for early voting, and managing relationships with statewide and national figures who sometimes treat local parties more as backdrops for appearances than as genuine partners. When a primary concludes, this infrastructure does not dissolve. It redirects. Unity after conflict is not erasure of disagreement; it is a deliberate choice to preserve capacity for the larger tasks ahead. 

I have witnessed the tangible costs when capable people disengage. In prior cycles, personal disappointments prompted some to step back or, worse, work against the organization. The consequences are measurable: reduced turnout, diluted messaging, and openings for opponents. Self-government demands institutions capable of outlasting individual ambitions or grievances. Political parties are imperfect—vulnerable to factionalism, inertia, and occasional self-dealing—but they perform essential functions: aggregating dispersed knowledge, distributing the workload, and creating accountability structures that independent efforts or ad hoc movements rarely replicate at scale. A single voice with a platform can shape opinion and hold leaders accountable. Converting that influence into sustained policy impact or electoral success requires a coordinated, disciplined organization.

This local reality stands in instructive contrast to national political dysfunction. In Washington and the broader media ecosystem, spectacle dominates: perpetual outrage, purity spirals, and the framing of every intra-party disagreement as existential treason. At the county level, practical governance imposes discipline. Commissioners must address real constituent concerns—road maintenance, zoning disputes, tax levies, and emergency services. Rhetoric collides with results on a shorter timeline. Butler County’s recent primary highlighted the importance of temperament alongside ideology. Party leadership maintained focus on process rather than inflammatory escalation. Post-primary statements emphasized forward momentum. Such quiet competence is more demanding than it appears and more valuable than fiery rhetoric in sustaining long-term effectiveness.

Gratitude is appropriate in this moment. It belongs to the central committee members who cast difficult votes based on their assessment of the county’s needs. To the volunteers who invested time in both campaigns and are now bridging divides. To Michael Ryan for waging a substantive race that resonated with voters. Institutional memory, carried by leaders who recall when Butler County was more competitive and the sustained effort required to build current strength, helps moderate impulses to dismantle structures after any single setback. People like Chairman Hall, who have been involved since the late 1990s, provide continuity that tempers short-term passions. 

None of this equates to demanding uncritical loyalty. Parties require ongoing scrutiny. Endorsement processes can and should evolve—perhaps with enhanced transparency, more structured candidate forums, and refined approaches to balancing incumbency advantages against fresh challenges. Yet the impulse to abandon or weaken the framework because one cycle produced disappointment undermines the very instrument needed for future contests. In an age of eroded public trust, competent local organizations help rebuild it precinct by precinct through consistent delivery and responsiveness.

The road ahead for Butler County follows a familiar and constructive pattern: consolidate support behind nominees, maximize turnout among the base, and communicate clearly on tangible priorities such as responsible growth, efficient services, and fiscal prudence. For those of us reflecting on the primary, the takeaways transcend this single race. Politics at its most effective is less poetry than prose—the patient discipline of meetings, voter lists, follow-up calls, and coalition maintenance. Leadership under pressure manifests not primarily in stirring speeches but in the capacity to accept defeat without bitterness, achieve victory without triumphalism, and realign all parties toward shared objectives.

This primary tested those qualities. Early indications suggest the organization met the challenge. That outcome merits recognition, not because the party or its processes are flawless, but because functional competence at the local level sustains self-government amid broader cultural noise. In an era that rewards disruption and performative outrage, preserving and improving these institutions—through honest critique, participation, and earned trust—remains a quiet but essential civic duty.

Expanding on these themes requires acknowledging the deeper historical and theoretical context that makes county parties vital. Alexis de Tocqueville, observing American democracy in the 1830s, famously noted the proliferation of voluntary associations as a distinguishing strength of the young republic. Political parties, at their best, represent one form of this associative life, mediating between the individual citizen and the scale of government. In a federal system, the county level serves as a crucial intermediary: close enough to constituents for accountability, yet structured enough to influence state and national outcomes. Butler County exemplifies this. Its Republican organization has helped maintain conservative governance on issues ranging from economic development in growing townships to prudent management of public resources. The primary process, while contentious, demonstrated the system’s capacity for self-correction without external imposition. 

Volunteer culture deserves particular emphasis. National campaigns and consultants often overlook the economics of local effort. In Butler, as elsewhere, much of the work relies on unpaid labor motivated by conviction rather than compensation. This creates both strengths and vulnerabilities. Commitment runs deep, but burnout is real. Effective leadership mitigates the latter through recognition, clear communication, and realistic expectations. Post-primary unity efforts succeed when they validate contributions from all sides rather than signaling that only the winner’s team mattered. Ryan’s campaign benefited from broad grassroots enthusiasm; integrating Carpenter’s supporters will strengthen the general election effort against the Democratic nominee.

Critics of party structures sometimes advocate for open primaries or non-partisan approaches, arguing that closed systems entrench insiders. There is merit in debating reforms. Yet evidence from political science suggests that strong parties correlate with more stable governance and higher accountability in legislative bodies. Duverger’s Law highlights how single-member district systems naturally favor two-party competition, with parties serving as gatekeepers that filter extreme or unserious candidates. Local organizations add granularity: they understand hyper-local dynamics—school levies, township trustees, zoning battles—that national or even statewide actors cannot. Dismissing them as obsolete ignores their role in countering the atomization of modern politics, where social media amplifies voices but rarely builds lasting coalitions. 

My perspective is shaped by years of commentary on these dynamics. I have celebrated victories, critiqued missteps, and urged higher standards. The 2026 primary reinforced that temperament matters profoundly. Victors who gloat or losers who withdraw permanently erode the shared capital necessary for future success. The measured tone from both campaigns and party leadership post-May 5 offers a model worth emulating. It acknowledges human ambition while subordinating it to institutional health.

Looking forward, Butler County faces familiar challenges: balancing growth with quality of life, controlling costs amid state and federal pressures, and maintaining trust in local institutions. The Republican nominee will benefit from the county’s partisan lean, but complacency is unwise. Effective parties treat every election as competitive, investing in voter contact and message discipline. National figures who visit during cycles would do well to invest more in these local structures rather than viewing them transactionally.

In the end, the quiet discipline of functional parties—endorsement processes that confer legitimacy, volunteer networks that deliver results, leadership that mediates rather than dictates—sustains the American experiment more reliably than episodic populism or institutional disdain. This primary was a reminder of that truth. Credit belongs to those who participated fully: candidates, committee members, volunteers, and voters. Their efforts, visible and invisible, keep self-government operational. Protecting that legacy, improving where needed, and recommitting after conflict represent the real work of politics. It is rarely glamorous, but it remains indispensable.

Footnotes

1.  Cincinnati Enquirer reporting on May 5, 2026, primary results.

2.  Journal-News coverage of endorsement and vote totals.

3.  Butler County Board of Elections data.

4.  Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835/1840), discussion of associations.

5.  Duverger, Political Parties (1951), on party systems.

6.  Observations drawn from public statements by party leadership and candidates.

7.  Historical context from local coverage of prior cycles.

Bibliography / Suggested Reading

•  de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. 1835/1840. (Especially Volume 1 on civil associations.)

•  Duverger, Maurice. Political Parties: Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State. 1951.

•  Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Simon & Schuster, 2000. (On social capital and local engagement.)

•  Aldrich, John H. Why Parties? A Second Look. University of Chicago Press, 2011.

•  Local coverage: Cincinnati Enquirer, Journal-News archives on Butler County elections.

•  Additional context from Ballotpedia entries on Ohio local races and party structures.

Rich Hoffman

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Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

Bullwhips: Why they are associated with everything I do

I have been asked for years why whips appear in my videos, my sites, and my personal iconography. For those who have known me longest, the question usually comes with a knowing smile, as if recalling an old shared joke. For newer acquaintances—those who discover my work through a podcast appearance, a cultural commentary piece, or a passing mention in wider discourse—the question carries genuine curiosity, sometimes even mild bewilderment. They wonder what such an archaic object could mean in modern life. The answer is straightforward, yet layered: the whip has never represented bravado or a hunger for conflict. It has always stood for preparation, symbolism, discipline, and the quiet refusal to hand over one’s agency to fear.

My fascination began in childhood, not with rebellion or spectacle, but with stories of individuals who met intimidation with composure. I devoured classic adventure cinema and serialized tales—black-and-white films flickering on late-night television, Republic Pictures serials with their cliffhanger tension, Westerns where lone figures upheld a code amid chaos. Zorro, in particular, captured me. He moved with elegance and precision, masked not to evade accountability but to shoulder it fully. He confronted tyranny without mirroring its cruelty, using wit and skill as extensions of moral clarity. Those stories planted a seed: justice need not seek permission from the powerful; it could arise from personal conviction and disciplined action.

That abstract pull found concrete grounding in family history. My grandfather and great-grandfather were practical men who worked the land in rural Kentucky. Whips were tools for them—extensions of the hand for guiding livestock, clearing brush, or managing distance with precision. As a boy, I watched them with wide-eyed reverence. I remember the dry Kentucky air thick with the scent of earth and hay, the faint creak of leather, and then the sharp, clean crack that split the stillness. One vivid memory remains etched: my great-grandfather, calm as still water, snapping a fly clean off the weathered side of a shed without disturbing the wood. There was no anger in the motion, no theatrical flourish. Only years of practiced focus, an intimate understanding of leverage, timing, and the physics of energy traveling down a braided length. The whip became, in that moment, a lesson in mastery—not domination, but harmony with consequence. Every crack carried immediate feedback. Miss, and you knew it instantly. Succeed, and the satisfaction was private, earned.

Those early impressions shaped more than idle curiosity. As I entered adolescence, schoolyard realities tested abstract ideals. Environments where hierarchies formed through bluster and threat rather than merit were common. I learned quickly that fear functions as currency only when accepted. A bully’s power evaporates the moment their target refuses the transaction. One particular incident stands out—not for drama, but for the internal shift it produced. Cornered by a group testing boundaries, I felt the familiar spike of adrenaline. Yet instead of freezing or fleeing, something from those whip lessons and adventure tales clicked: respond with clarity, not escalation. I stood firm, voice steady, eyes level. The moment passed without violence, but the realization endured. Intimidation relies on your participation. Withdraw consent, and the dynamic collapses. That lesson traveled with me into adulthood, informing how I navigated professional pressures, public discourse, and personal challenges.

Martial arts deepened this foundation. I immersed myself in disciplines emphasizing structure, balance, footwork, timing, and above all, restraint. Years of training in systems rooted in traditional practice taught that true competence whispers rather than shouts. It waits, patient and prepared. I studied the transfer of force, the economy of motion, and the mental discipline required to remain centered amid chaos. Over time, these elements—family craft, cinematic archetypes, physical training—wove into a cohesive personal philosophy. It was never about inventing novelty or seeking attention. It was integration: taking timeless principles and applying them to contemporary existence.

Preparedness, I came to understand, is frequently misconstrued as paranoia or latent aggression. In truth, it cultivates calm. When you have tested your limits through deliberate practice, when you know your capabilities and accept your responsibilities, fear loses its primary lever. You cease knee-jerk emotional reactions and begin responding with reasoned presence. This mindset proved invaluable as I moved into public life. Speaking on cultural matters, challenging assumptions, or simply voicing independent thought invites pressure. Sometimes it arrives as social exclusion, professional repercussions, or relentless psychological framing. The tactic remains consistent: induce retreat without substantive engagement. Fear is efficient because it bypasses debate.

I decided early against living under that shadow. The choice was deliberate, not reckless. Discipline over anxiety. Preparation over denial. Personal responsibility over dependence on external validation or protection. The whip crystallized this decision. Learning it demands patience. The leather does not forgive haste or distraction. Its physics are unforgiving: energy builds along the taper, accelerating to supersonic speed at the tip. One slight error in wrist angle, grip, or follow-through, and the crack becomes a painful self-inflicted lesson. Progress requires ego surrender. Early attempts bring frustration—tangles, weak pops, bruised pride. Each failure teaches humility and attention. Success arrives only after hundreds of repetitions, when mind, body, and tool align in quiet competence.

Psychologically, the whip mirrors broader life patterns. It punishes emotional volatility. Swing in anger, and you lose control. Approach with calm focus, and precision follows. In public discourse, the parallel is striking. A flailing argument scatters energy uselessly. A single, well-timed point—delivered with clarity and restraint—cuts through noise like that supersonic tip. The whip rewards respect for its nature; so does effective communication. Over the years, this symbol has organically attached itself to my work. Friends referenced it with humor. Viewers inquired. Strangers requested demonstrations. “Can you do a trick?” became a common refrain. I often smiled and redirected, preferring substance over performance. Yet maturity brings a willingness to explain the root rather than minimize it.

The deeper essence has never been domination or threat. It centers on deterrence born of inner certainty, moral confidence, and psychological resilience. When others recognize that fear holds no sway, dynamics transform. Posture straightens. Conversations shift from coercion to exchange. Many potential conflicts dissipate before ignition because the foundation for intimidation has been removed. This principle extends beyond physical tools into speech, integrity, and cultural navigation. In an era of digital amplification—where outrage algorithms reward emotional reactivity, where institutional pressures frame dissent as deviance, where social mechanisms attempt to enforce conformity through shame cycles—the response remains consistent: remove fear from the equation. Reclaim agency. Force interactions back into the arena of reason and accountability. Those unable to operate there reveal their own limitations.

Philosophical traditions reinforced what experience taught. Miyamoto Musashi’s The Book of Five Rings spoke to detached clarity amid conflict, the warrior’s mind unclouded by emotion. Sun Tzu emphasized winning before battle through positioning and insight. Jigoro Kano’s judo principles highlighted using an opponent’s force against them while maintaining balance—much like channeling energy precisely through a whip rather than brute resistance. Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey framed the personal quest: venturing into uncertainty, confronting shadows, returning transformed with hard-won wisdom. These were not abstract texts; they illuminated lived practice. The restrained guardian archetype—Zorro as a modern knight-errant, Fairbanks’ swashbucklers balancing flair with duty—echoed across time. Even historical reflections on justice outside rigid institutions, as explored by thinkers like E.P. Thompson, underscore that moral order sometimes requires personal readiness when systems falter.

At its core, the whip embodies self-control in an age prone to indulgence, responsibility amid widespread excuse-making, and preparedness against currents of denial. It is no relic of aggression but a tangible reminder that discipline precedes freedom. Courage, similarly, is cultivated long before any visible conflict. The hours of solitary practice, the ego-bruising repetitions, the quiet satisfaction of incremental mastery—these build the internal reservoir that sustains through storms.

I have worn many masks across decades: professional, public, private. Beneath them, the values remain constant—discipline, preparedness, restraint, resolve. Sharing this openly now feels right, not for performance or provocation, but for honesty. People today hunger for tangible examples of lived conviction. Abstract ideals fall short of witnessing how principles endure in practice. If articulating this path helps even one person loosen fear’s grip on their decisions, the candor serves a purpose. If it illustrates that justice and clarity begin with personal accountability, all the better.

Looking forward, the legacy I hope to leave transcends any single symbol. It is a quiet demonstration that ordinary individuals can cultivate extraordinary resilience. In daily life—facing workplace coercion, digital pile-ons, familial tensions, or cultural headwinds—the same mindset applies. Assess honestly. Prepare diligently. Respond with measured agency. Teach children through example that mastery arises from repetition and respect, not entitlement. Encourage friends to value inner calibration over external approval. The whip, for me, remains a private compass more than a public prop. Its crack echoes a simpler truth: you are capable of more than fear allows you to believe.

That realization, extended outward, fosters healthier discourse, stronger communities, and freer minds. It asks each of us to examine our own tools of self-mastery—whatever form they take—and wield them with care. In doing so, we honor the lineage of those who came before: the quiet practitioners, the storytellers, the guardians of principle. We pass forward not fear, but freedom earned through discipline.

This path is ongoing. I continue to practice, reflect, and integrate. The whip still rests in my hand from time to time, a tactile link to origins and aspirations. Its lessons endure: precision over power, calm over chaos, responsibility as the truest form of strength.

Bibliography & Further Reading / Viewing

Classic Film & Serial Influences

•  The Mark of Zorro (1920 silent version with Douglas Fairbanks; 1940 sound version with Tyrone Power)

•  Republic Pictures adventure serials (1930s–1940s, including Zorro-themed entries)

•  Douglas Fairbanks Sr. swashbuckler films

•  Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925)

Martial Philosophy & Discipline

•  Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

•  Sun Tzu, The Art of War

•  Jigoro Kano, writings and teachings on Judo discipline and philosophy

•  Dave Grossman, On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace (for mental preparedness frameworks)

•  Epictetus and Seneca, selected Stoic writings on controlling fear and the internal locus of control

Cultural Symbolism & Justice Archetypes

•  Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

•  Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World (for traditional archetype context)

•  E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (historical justice outside formal institutions)

Historical Tools & Craft

•  Ron Edwards, How to Make Whips

•  David Morgan, Whips and Whipping

•  Additional craft resources from traditional leatherwork and equestrian traditions

Image & Archive Sources

•  Library of Congress film stills and historical photography archives

•  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences photo and poster collections

•  Smithsonian Folkways and rural American material culture collections

•  Museum of Western Film History image archives

Rich Hoffman

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About the Author: Rich Hoffman

Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

If You Aren’t a Good Person, Linkedln Can’t Hide It: The Affair of Andy Byron

I think I have a little more hope for humanity after the very public reaction to Andy Byron getting caught at a Coldplay concert in Boston cheating on his wife with Kristin Cabot, the head of his human resources department.  It was the now-famous Kisscam embrace where the stadium was watching the jumbotron, and the camera panned to Andy, who promptly ducked out of sight.  Nothing says I love you like fleeing the public eye.  I mean, if you are going to have an affair, maybe he should have been more proud of it.  What kind of man did the boss of human resources think she was getting from a guy who would knowingly cheat on his wife with her, and even deny it in public when caught?  The whole incident was a multitude of bad that points to a multitude of worse.  However, a lot of good did come of it, as Byron was the CEO of Astronomer, an AI tech company with many billions of dollars.  After the public’s anger circulated the world, Astronomer dropped him as their CEO, which is undoubtedly a step in the right direction.  I mean, how can you make deals with people if they can’t trust you to at least be honorable to a person closest to you, as a wife?  What does it say about anybody if they can’t make one basic relationship at home work?  How are they supposed to create a culture among many employees if they can’t do it successfully?  I tend to be very skeptical of most people and the way they maintain their marriages.  I think people are too easily lax with the rules, and it shows a lot about their character when they do cheat.  I can’t imagine why a grown man with adult children would want to attend a musical concert.  But the public reaction to the affair was a pleasant surprise. 

Of course, kisscams all across the world started to make fun of the incident, as most people saw the way Andy Byron handled the whole situation as inherently evil.  It’s not a good idea to cheat on your wife.  But now you’re a billionaire and a successful person, maybe thinking of starting a new relationship to outpace the mistakes of a previous one.  That might appear to be a justifiable reason.  But with your head of human resources at your company?  Aren’t there other girls to cheat with if you are thinking of doing it?  And it looked like there were other people there from the office who knew of this affair because they were embarrassed too, once they were caught.  What does that say about everyone involved?  If you have to duck away from cameras, you are probably up to no good, and what’s worse is when someone does something anyway.  It reveals a lack of good judgment, which raises questions about why he was ever appointed as a CEO in the first place.  I know people go to a lot of trouble to look good on paper with their resumes and LinkedIn professional profiles, but they often fail to meet the expectations of reality, which is very common these days, especially in CEO positions.  Anybody who would go to a music concert as a middle-aged person with their head of human resources and openly flaunt an affair to the world, but acts like a coward when caught, is showing terrible judgment that fancy interviews and speeches can’t hide.  People are aware of this, and it highlights a deeper issue with individuals who run companies, as Andy Bryon did. 

When you are a compromised person, and let’s face it, we have a system that has been put in place in our employment culture where we put weak people in positions of power on purpose so that they fall very easily to every little woke rule, or letter from Larry Fink.  And CEOs like Andy Byron lecture the rest of the world toward progressive causes.  Much of what they do as leaders is cosmetic to cover up their lack of personal integrity.  They use their jobs to cover for their low moral conduct.  And nobody knows a person better than their family.  If things aren’t great in the bedroom and with your kids, we have a culture that has given the illusion that a job can replace those valiant efforts with a personal title of social respect.  And if you are cheating on your wife and kids with some other woman, especially one who is supposed to enforce a standard at the workplace against such actions, a level of hypocrisy has been revealed that clearly shows people have strong opinions about the matter.  And if people are outraged, that’s a good thing.  We often don’t get to see people like Andy Byron beyond news clips.  But behavior tells us far more about people, and that takes all the fancy talk you see on resumes and makes them much more real.  Nothing says I love you more than ducking for cover when trouble comes.  And nothing shows leadership more than violating all your company rules and showing everyone that you can’t even maintain a marriage.  So how can you lead a company, or even a department?  If you have such bad judgment on little things, then how can you guide billions of dollars of value to the proper place?  The answer is you can’t.

When Byron and his lover Kristin Cabot were caught, it was a classic male-to-female embrace from behind.  When a woman surrenders herself in such a passive way, it’s undoubtedly a mating response to further advancement, leading to sexual intercourse.  It’s an affirmation of safety, that the embrace of a man will make her feel secure with his arms around her, and she holding elements of his arms to show a willingness to be in the passive sexual role.  If the woman were doing the same to the man, it would be weird.  A larger male embracing a smaller female for sexual union by asserting safety and security to the recipient of sex is a classic signal that everyone understands.  But to affirm that it was all phony in an instant, that all the personal contact and pillow talk were as flimsy as Andy Byron himself, was something everyone also understood the moment he dodged the camera once he realized he was caught.  And she did too.  It was a fun affair as long as nobody knew about it.  Or that everyone at the office knew, but that they thought they could all conspire to keep it a secret from the world.  People don’t like that kind of behavior, and they let everyone know it in the aftermath.  And people were not understanding of Andy Byron.  They looked down on him, and that is a good thing.  That means people aren’t all out there cheating on each other at every turn.  That there are still a lot of people who think that their relationship to their families is still the most important one in their lives, and that if they aren’t successful there, they can’t be successful in other things.  Progressive, Democrat society would like to believe that job titles give people power that personal behavior can’t.  And no matter how we construct our culture to think that flawed people can be CEOs of big companies, the public has other opinions.  And if a man doesn’t dare to stand tall under fire, even when it’s just a camera pointed at him, how can he lead others in anything?  The answer is, he can’t.  Nobody can.  Flawed individuals create flawed companies and societies.  And people do expect leaders to be more than average and to stand tall under fire.  And to do the right things, even when it’s hard. 

Rich Hoffman

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Joe Biden’s Presidency Was Illegal: They are using the cancer diagnosis to hide the crime behind sympathy

Just remember, when people say that my topics are too wild to be believed, because lately I have been talking a lot about Atlantis and the origins of ancient civilizations, remember that most of the time, if not every single time, I am right about the things I say.  There is a reason by choice that I do not write for significant publications and flaunt academic credentials as part of a byline.  That is because I don’t trust institutionalism because of what I understand psychologically about the people who make it up, and the limits it places on society.  And I sometimes pick some of those complex and wild topics to stretch my legs.  Because when the rubber hits the road, I am always there to say, “I told you so.”  And that was certainly the case when it came to the origins of COVID-19.  I would say I was the very first person out of all the media in the world to call it what we now know it was, which includes some of the wildest so-called “right-winged media” out there.  And I was among the first to call the election fraud of 2020 what it was, and I turned out to be right about everything.  I have covered many very controversial, far-reaching topics that seem insane at the time, but once the facts all come in, I turn out to be right.  So I am having a little fun with the Joe Biden topic after the tapes captured by Robert Hur made their way into the mainstream media.  I found it astonishing that news commentators like Laura Ingraham were shocked by what they heard, which was that Joe Biden was utterly unable to function in a mental capacity and was essentially a Weekend at Bernie’s presidency, propped up by handlers to appear to be in charge.  It was all a complete deception, and once those tapes hit the news cycle, they announced that he had a ten-year-old prostate cancer diagnosis, hoping to use compassion to get the former president off the front pages.  The Hur tapes bring up a much more catastrophic problem that few people can handle.  But I will.

She knew, among many who did

Joe Biden was illegally inserted and was never in command of the White House, leaving unelected personalities running his presidency completely in the background, and now many of those people have been caught.  Now, the good thing is that this break in trust is healthy for people to experience.  Society has been suckered by a group that we call “elites” who hold the power in our offices outside of elected representation.  And it’s a hard learned lesson that will forever change the Democrat Party.  I think they are destroyed forever, but we’ll see.  I don’t see them ever returning from the damage they have inflicted on themselves over these last five years, starting with the Covid cover-up, and ending with the truth about the Biden presidency.  They lied about everything, including his cancer diagnosis.  It’s possible they even lied to Biden himself to keep him smiling for the cameras and standing at a podium with a stick up his backside to keep him from falling over.  We are witnessing a grand deception on an epic scale that was massively illegal in the process, and people will never forget it.  So as we hear the stories of the media sacrificing themselves now hoping to win back trust, and the Jake Tapper’s of the world come out with their books and are getting raked over the coals for what they knew but didn’t say about the matter, and Jim Comey is getting embarrassed in public at book signings by an angry public, and he smiles and takes it, because he has no other option, remember who told you first about all these things……….I did. 

Trump may want to give Biden a pass, but the former president played right along with the plan, knowing the people behind it.

I run the blog because it gives me a chance to express trustworthy independent journalism, and because of how I live my life, it is free of outside influence.  I can afford to do things almost no other journalist in the world can do.  And that is a very valuable asset in a free speech environment.  And people ask me all the time why I do it.  Well, it’s for cases like this, the Joe Biden case, that I do what I do, even though many of the things I said were ridiculed extensively right out of the gate.  Just as the things I am speaking about, like Atlantis, might seem too wild to seriously consider.  When something is so far outside of a mainstream narrative, people have a hard time with it.  But when that state of disbelief is part of the crime, to use that nature against people to perpetuate a knowing deception on the world, we should all have a significant problem with that type of conduct.  And I certainly do, and that’s why I choose to produce the kind of media I do, in the form that I decided to do it.  And the sum of the whole Biden story is that everything Biden signed as president is invalidated because of this massive cover-up, which is the real reason that the cancer diagnosis came out when it did, to use sympathy to hide the crime.  These people have been caught in a major crime against the United States of America, which is all of us who are citizens of this country, and there is no forgiveness for that transgression.  All the people involved in the Biden cover-up committed a significant crime that must now be punished. 

I had to remind a few good friends I have in the media, who are very close to the White House, when the story broke over a mid-May weekend in 2025 that Biden’s cancer story was a ruse, and not to fall for it.  He’s an old man, and most men will eventually get prostate cancer of some kind.  There is no surprise by that diagnosis, so don’t go soft on Biden because he’s a dying man.  I’ve been warning for a long time that when the crapola hit the fan with Biden, they would try to use a funeral to take people’s minds away from the seriousness of the crime.  And that’s what they tried to do with the cancer diagnosis.  Don’t be a sucker and fall for it.  The real story is that everything Biden touched was illegal, including his nomination of a Supreme Court member in Ketanji Brown Jackson, the extremely liberal trainwreck that should be nowhere near a courtroom.  But it wasn’t Biden who picked her, but rather Barack Obama, and Alex Soros, along with his terrorist father, George Soros.  People we did not elect and had no legal right to the office of the Executive Branch. That means every bill signed was signed under illegal conditions and is invalid.  Everything that Biden had been doing for four years was unlawful.  And how do we know? We know they put him in place with election fraud.  And if that story is too wild for you, then now you have the proof that the people behind Biden lied about his health.  He had this cancer before he was elected president, and they lied about it to put him in office so they could essentially run him as a puppet in the background.  They rigged the entire process to get a compromised puppet in the White House so that they could steal that power away from voters.  Just let that sink in.  This is a bigger story than most anybody could wrap their minds around.  But there it is.  And the damage from this will never allow things to return to what they were before.  And a lot of people are in deep trouble for it.  Jake Tapper and Jim Comey are just the tip of the tip of the iceberg.  And the Democrat Party has hit that iceberg, and is sinking very fast. 

Rich Hoffman

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I’m Proud of Sheriff Jones: Its time to put an end of the drug cartels

I am proud of Sheriff Jones; I had a nice chance to talk to him at the Nancy Nix fundraiser as he had just returned from Washington, D.C., with a mission straight from Tom Homan, the border czar himself.  The Sheriff was told to make room in his jails because they would fill up quickly during March.  The Trump administration was done with Mexican drug cartels that were hiding in plain sight behind illegal immigration, and they were about to do what had been promised by Trump on the campaign trail.  They were going to be at least arrested and deported with what should be called, mass law enforcement.  The media will call them raids, and crackdowns.  But whatever anybody calls them, the illegal aliens, especially those hosting a criminal element, are toast.  And Sheriff Jones is more than ready to do his part in Butler County, Ohio.  He has been waiting his entire life for just this opportunity and a president willing to do what the law states: we must protect our borders from hostile people not committed to the American cause.  The only way to describe the previous immigration policy was a purposeful attack on our nation and the concept of a free people, with the hostilities of a criminal element seeking to overrun our legal system.  It wasn’t amicable, so the remedy must be more resilient.  Sheriff Jones warned us that the days to come would have a lot of stories of rounding up these villains and that people needed some context for the voluminous incidents that would be reported in the news during March, which was good news to my ears.  It couldn’t come soon enough.  One of the promises Trump had made during the campaign was the death penalty for cartel drug traffickers, which, to my mind, is too good for any of them.

Butler County has a very good police department.  This past year, I have been able to work with them a lot.  I served several weeks on a grand jury in 2024, where I met many of them and toured around the jail Sheriff Jones oversees, so I acquired an appreciation for what good law enforcement is and what it isn’t.  And I again was able to get to know some really good members of the Sheriff’s department at an event I was a part of organizing for Vivek Ramaswamy where they served as security.  Good guys, all of them.  They are excellent guys.  And tough guys too.  Which is what you want.  But when I saw Sheriff Jones, and we spent a little time catching up, I told him, and I meant it, that if he wants to deputize me to help round up all these punks, losers, despots, and crime-addicted lunatics hiding in illegal immigration, give me a call.  I would be more than happy to help.  I know the Butler County Sheriff’s Department has it all covered.  But I would enjoy the work and do it at the drop of a hat because let me explain something.  I hate drug dealers.  I hate drug use.  And I hate the drug cartels.  I hate them so much that I don’t think hate is a strong enough word.  Drug dealing, to me, is the deliberate poisoning of a person’s mind, which I consider one of the worst crimes.  What makes rape so terrible is it displays an intent to take away from a person their consent to sex and to display complete dominion over them, robbing them of the decision-making process.  Drugs do all that and more through a subterfuge of the intellectual process of thought. And for me, it all falls under the same category.  I feel so strongly about it that I don’t even like drinking at sports bars and social events.  If you aren’t protecting a mind, you are proposing that animal acts rule in society, non-thinking application of life energy.

As usual, Sheriff Jones is always a good talk. I’m all for him taking on the cartels with Trump

And as I said all that and more to Sheriff Jones, I was proud of him.  I like knowing that my local sheriff was called to Washington, D.C., to be a part of cleaning up national drug cartel violence.  I’ve known Sheriff Jones for years, and he doesn’t tell the stories of all the death hits on his life that the drug cartels have called for against him.  But there have been many.  More than many, and all of them, should be considered an act of war declared against any American citizen.  Remember when President Trump talked about the way he was going to apply to all law enforcement like Tom Homan and sheriffs like Jones, the need to punish these criminals.  And now they would be conducting that task over the next several weeks.  When drug cartels announce that they want to kill you, that’s not something to be taken lightly.  The thug mentality that was proposed should be considered hostile and purposeful.  They started it, and it’s our task to correct the behavior.  For too long, these horrible people in the drug cartels, neck tattoos and all, have been insisting that they exploit human weakness with drug use, knowing that their product was poison and that the result would be catastrophic to America as a nation.  They purposefully engaged in the destruction of innocence with a deliberate intent to destroy America as a country, and socialists around the world cheered the effort on with great enthusiasm.  Never forget that.

Jones was giving me a hard time because I didn’t have my hat this time.

Not to kiss and tell, which I don’t like to do, but I think in the case of Sheriff Jones, it is needed for context regarding what is about to happen.  The Sheriff and I were sitting together about 15 years ago at a political event.  I remember it well; it was in the barn for a Tea Party event that was going on at the Niederman Farm, and we were showing off a video I had done with Sheriff Jones talking about the problem of illegal immigration.  That was the same year many of us, myself included, were purposefully attacked through the IRS by Lois Lerner, and I was named as one of the targets along with my personal friend Justin Binik-Thomas.  Jones and I were trying to decide whether or not to use pictures of headless people who were decapitated along the border by the drug cartels.  Sheriff Jones encouraged me to use them because he thought it might wake people up.  They were nasty pictures that showed many innocent people killed in horrible ways.  Women were raped and had their bones ripped away from their bodies afterward, and they were awful to look at.  I was going to use them for my media platforms, and ultimately, I decided not to use them because I figured they’d be banned for their graphic content.  But we looked at hundreds of these pictures together while everyone else enjoyed a nice party atmosphere of hamburgers and hot dogs on a beautiful summer evening.  My wife and I had just returned from Mexico with a video from some rough, drug cartel-controlled areas, so I knew firsthand how bad the situation was.  And I know what Sheriff Jones wanted to do about it then, but Obama was in office, and his administration was encouraging drug cartel growth and not looking to punish it in any way.  So this isn’t a new thing.  But finally, I think we are going to see justice applied to the drug cartels.  And they have it coming, all they will receive and then some.  And Sheriff Jones is ready.  And if he needs help, I am more than willing.  I have hated the cartels for a long time and would be happy to see their destruction for good.  For our purposes, it’s the month of March that is only the beginning.

Rich Hoffman

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When Police Break the Law, They Have to be Punished: The J6 prisoners never should have spent one day in jail

I said it right after the event; everyone can look up all the videos and see what I wrote then.  I always said that the January 6th incident in 2021, when people were upset at election fraud and stormed the Capitol Building, had to happen.  I didn’t understand why everyone made such a big deal about it.  After all, there was a government that just stole an election to perform a coup against President Trump, and they thought they were going to get away with it like some backwoods third-world armpit of a country.  A certain percentage of the population needed to express their anger in some way, and in this case, it was by letting the government know that the people’s house was theirs and that they could take it back if they wanted to.  Now, there are all kinds of things wrong with that day, especially among the 26 FBI agents who spread out through the massive crowd around the Capitol to bait people to break the law so that they could call the whole thing an insurrection so that they could blame Trump for it and in the process, destroy his political life from then on.  When a massive crowd showed up to hear with some hope, Trump’s last speech to them ahead of certifying the election results, the FBI, in coordination with Nancy Pelosi and others, plotted with some bait to push these angry people into a collective action that they could use to club the MAGA movement over the head and deter any further protests against the government coup.  And some people broke windows and acted in a manner that I would never do.  And a few people died and got hurt.  But my attitude about it all then and now was, what did anybody expect to happen?  The government stole an election and took away a president people liked.  They were lucky that was all that happened, “they” being the government.

So it had to happen that Trump pardoned all the poor people who were thrown in jail for the last four years just over a government trying hard to stay in power through intimidation and force.  When the government breaks the law and controls how the law is interpreted, you cannot have a civil society if law enforcement doesn’t enforce the law but provokes themselves into breaking the law and uses the law to cover up their crimes, which was what happened on January 6th, 2021.  We have a Constitution that limits the power that government has, especially specified in the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, and the January 6th prisoners had all those rights violated unjustly.  Their due process was deliberately violated, and what was done to them was completely unforgivable.  Law enforcement should expect people to fight back if they violate the protections people have from an out-of-control government.  Democrats have been saying that Trump should have never released with a pardon most of the J6 prisoners because they assaulted police officers.  But when police officers break the law or the enemy captures your legal society, what are you supposed to do?  The plan by the government was to capture our legal system and then break laws by controlling the enforcement.  And they thought nothing of using the January 6th incident to put people in jail to send a message to the rest of the country that if they were thought to be involved, even remotely, in a plot against the corrupt government, they would have their rights taken away from them and would be jailed as a message to the rest of the world.  It was nasty stuff.

I would never do anything like the J6 protestors did.  I would fight it out in court.  As much as it is fun to fight back and even justified, I do much better with my mouth than any other method, and I would use it instead of violence.  I’ve been in enough of those things to know that my mouth is the best weapon against corrupt people who aren’t nearly as smart.  I had a lot of talks with people who wanted a lot more violence that day.  I even took serious steps to join the Proud Boys after the stolen election in 2020, so I know those guys pretty well.  It didn’t work out; I’m too cerebral to march around in a pack of volunteer ground troops. I wanted to join to help to lead them to good things.  Not to be just another face in the crowd.  So it didn’t come together, me joining the Proud Boys.  But that’s how it was after the election, and I had to explain to many people that the best way to club these people over the head is with lawfare of their own.  Trump understood that even if he knew what the government was doing was wrong, he had to follow the rules to later enforce the rules.  A lot of the reason things are working so well now is because Trump played by the rules, and the people elected him back to office.   We all had to thread the needle pretty well to get to this period because there were a lot of people who wanted open violence and another Civil War against the government, and I can say I did all I could to maintain peace during this challenging time.  But many people were ready to fight, so the government was lucky that all that happened was all that happened. 

Anybody in law enforcement has to understand that if they take orders from the bad guys, we don’t have a blank check society that is going to take it.  We give law enforcement the authority to be treated with respect.  But it’s on them if they lose that respect through improper behavior.  I can say this: I served this past year as a Forman of a Grand Jury, and we did a couple of cases where the police abused their authority in collecting evidence for an arrest.  I could see from the testimony that the police officers were frustrated with their investigation into a drug house.  They knew the criminals were dirty, so they pulled a couple of them over for an improperly functioning turn signal.  And in the process, they found all the drugs and evidence they needed to make the arrest.  Well, most of the members of the grand jury did not agree with me, and they moved not to indict because they didn’t like to see an abuse of authority by the cops to use a traffic stop to make a significant drug bust.  I was disappointed, but I understood their reasoning.  Respect for the law is the only way to keep our society functioning.  But when the bad guys capture your law and order society and attempt to hide crimes behind their control of the system, don’t expect people to put up with it.  And that was undoubtedly the plan behind J6.  I would say that the government was lucky they got away with not having more violence applied to them.  If law enforcement seeks to abuse the law, they should expect the public to get angry and respond.  We don’t expect to respect the law and authority no matter what.  However, we give away that privilege to law enforcement on a conditional basis, and that contract is to keep their powers limited by the Constitution.  Suppose they violate that contract, as they did over the stolen election in 2020? In that case, people will take action to restore those limited powers to the theater of expectation.  And the government should be happy that more people didn’t lash out than they did.  I would do it differently, but I understood their reasoning, like those grand jury members I mentioned.  And that is certainly the case with the J6 prisoners.  They should have never spent one day in jail.  Who is going to give them back their lives?  President Trump was very correct in getting them out of jail.  Because if he didn’t, our legal system would be much less effective if we let such an injustice loose to maintain a polite society.  No, we must do what’s right, even if things get a little pushy.  The J6 prisoners had every right in the world and an expectation to do what they did.  The government broke the law and used it to hide major, massive crimes.  And they are lucky that they are still around to have a legal discussion.  It could have been much worse.

Rich Hoffman

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They Tried to Kill Trump: Wearing the Armor of God for the fight of our times

I was watching the assassination attempt of President Trump live, and when I saw him go down to the floor as the Secret Service piled around him after he grabbed the side of his head, I thought that was it.  I admired Trump a lot as he got to his feet with bodies and hands trying to cover him from more gunfire that was coming from a nearby roof, where a young kid let off eight rounds toward Trump and the crowd at a Pennsylvania rally, killing innocent people while also striking Trump.  When Trump stood up with blood running down the side of his head and pumped his fist to the crowd, yelling, “Fight,” I thought he had about 15 seconds to live.  Because a bullet had hit him, and it wouldn’t take but a few seconds for him to bleed out.  At that moment, he knew he had been shot, and if it was the last thing on earth that he could do, he was telling the crowd to “Fight.”  I was very proud of Trump.  He didn’t have to be doing any of this.  He didn’t need all this trouble.  He’s one of the wealthiest people in the world; he didn’t need to be at that rally on a nice July day running for President.  But there he was, shot by some kid named Thomas Matthew Crooks just moments away from possibly his lights going out forever, and he was back on his feet telling the crowd to fight.  And my first thought was, “That is a man.  That’s what presidents should all look like.  And he has been great for America.”  As sad as that event was, because there were real casualties from the gunfire that hit innocent people behind Trump, I was thrilled to see that the bullet had just grazed Trump in the ear, about as close as possible without being lethal, and that Trump was going to live to fight another day. 

When she heard the news live, my wife was out getting gas and snacks at Kroger with my grandchildren.  The cashier and a customer discussed it as she stepped up to pay.  My wife lost it when she heard that Trump had been shot, and she essentially went into a conscious coma.  Crying because she had met Trump and dearly loves Trump, she came home to see if I knew what was happening and wanted me to do something about it.  Then my wife realized that she paid for the gas but never got it; she left again to go and get it, as she was still upset and staggering, looking for answers.  By the time she went back to get the gas, we knew then that the bullet didn’t kill Trump and that he was just grazed.  And he would live to fight on.  But it certainly provided context to the world we are living in, which is at war.  I’m honestly surprised that there haven’t been more assassination attempts against Trump, but this was a desperate attempt by a failing left political party.  The big question was how alone this kid was, and how much did a more significant plot play in the background to provoke such a person into action to go to that rally with an AR-15, climb onto the roof of a building outside the security parameter, and shoot at people knowing the ramifications for doing so would end his life, one way or the other.  The next thought I had was that the CIA was involved as tools of the deep state, just as they did with JFK, and that they had found a way to push this kid through psychological manipulation into taking a step they desired but couldn’t afford to do themselves.  The kid was killed, so we likely will never know, and there are a lot of creepy circumstances pointing to that thought process in the aftermath.  But for the moment, all that mattered was learning that Trump would live and be fine. 

After all they have thrown at Trump, and even the other day Biden made references to targeting Trump further as the election drew nearer, the ominous reality of just how bad things are came into sharp focus for many people.  As the events unfolded, Steve Bannon emailed from jail, where he and Peter Navarro were serving time by the crooked January 6th Commission who did not honor their Executive Immunity as White House staff.  Steve Bannon, before he had to report to jail on July 1st, predicted there would be assassination attempts against Trump, and he was right.  It’s been a while since people have seen one, but just remember it was recently that the Prime Minister of Japan was shot to death in a very similar way.  And Bolsonaro in Brazil was stabbed in public, obviously intending to kill him with assassination.  Around the world, where the communist infusion of global politics has gone hard at work to develop radical young kids like this Trump shooter to do their dirty work, this is a widespread problem.  It is much more common than people have been willing to admit to.  And now a purposeful attempt against Trump’s life had been discharged, and it terrified people to just how bad the situation is and has been.  They, being the organization of the Administrative State, have literally thrown everything they have at Trump and his immediate supporters like Bannon, jailing them, bankrupting them, prosecuting them in every way possible, and, of course, literally trying to kill them.  That kid in Pennsylvania killed people, and when he pulled the trigger to that rifle while lying on the roof, he meant to kill the President.  Why would a 20-year-old kid ever want to do such a thing? 

There is a lot to learn from all this, but the main thing is to admire Trump for the courage he showed while under fire.  And for the cool state of mind, he maintained while literal death was at his doorstep.  I am very proud that Trump is running for president.  That is the kind of attitude I expect from people in general, but especially from someone who wants to lead America.  As reports came from Trump himself on Truth Social minutes after this assassination attempt that he was going to be okay, and he acknowledged the members of the family of the Trump supporter who had been killed, I thought of the assassination of President Lincoln.  It’s always Democrats who are trying to kill Republicans.  When Democrats don’t get their way, they always seem to turn to violence.  And that was the case with this Trump assassination attempt, the ultimate form of election fraud.  The hate is very real, and our public schools breed this mentality of hate into our youth. we saw an example of their activity in the deadliest way that it can be presented.  And it showed in the aftermath an absolute evil working in the background.  I found it ironic that people quickly were turning to the Bible to explain what they were feeling, and they saw as a point of comfort the Ephesians quote from chapter 6 that I like so much on the Armour of God.  Yes, what happened to Trump is consistent with that Bible verse.  God does tend to protect those who are doing his work.   And Trump is, and he does enjoy a level of protection, and the hand of God was evident on this otherwise horrendous day, protected.  God saved Trump, and Trump dared to continue to fight for what was right with that armor of God.  And people had a wake-up call that was probably necessary, and very much needed.  God does work in mysterious ways to our eyes.  But on the big picture, everything is moving along as required.  And fighting for that future is very much our present concern regardless of the risks or consequences.

This is the 2024 election in a photo! What a cool dude!

Rich Hoffman

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The Communist Left Wants Out: Punishment Old Testament style is coming for them after what they have done to Trump

The communist left has gone too far, and I would look for them to try and find some reason to have a mistrial regarding Trump’s sentencing.  Yes, of course, they want to put him in jail and gain the ability to decide where and when he goes on any campaigning on the final stretch of running for president, which everyone seems so shocked to see; Trump is pulling away from Biden rapidly in current polling, especially in the critical battleground states.  The risk for the communists now is what happens to them when the shoe is on the other foot.  Because they have gone all in and then some to use their power to keep Trump out of the presidency, but if he wins anyway, and authentic “democracy” puts him in office, as they did in 2016, despite all the games and shenanigans, what will happen to them?   I can say that Trump was very nice in not jailing Hillary Clinton.  I said then that Trump should have done it because they would do it to him.  However, Trump wanted to play the high ground and be nice to his political enemies.  But they have not been so kind to him, and have done everything they could to destroy him and his family.  Even members of his administration.  Members of Congress.  The Supreme Court itself.  They have shown every ugly card imaginable, and for what, to arrive at this point in history with the public still picking him when given a choice?  And now they are looking for ways out of the corner they painted themselves into.  Including the judge in the New York case looking for an avenue out indicating a mistrial because once Trump does win in November, and the shoe is on the other foot, the communist left will be vulnerable in ways they never imagined. 

My advice, which many people are asking for these days, big names who do critical jobs and are looking for clarity, is that if you want law and order in society, you must punish those who break the law.  And you have to do it Old Testament style.  None of this Jesus stuff of forgiveness.  We don’t have another three hundred years of Christian persecutions only to finally have the Romans adopt our religion and try to unify the world with the Bible, a selection of stories they picked to build a healthy society from their perspective of social control and domination.  I am a supporter of the books of the Apocrypha to be added to the Septuagint for a complete understanding of God’s story from that period of history.  And Jesus was appealing to those who didn’t want to be fed to the lions themselves.  “Remember, Jesus said to turn the other cheek?  Please don’t hurt us for all we’ve done to you.”  Remember what they did to you and give it back to them and then some.  Punish them viciously and ruthlessly, and don’t be nice about it.  That is my advice to everyone in the wake of what we have caught the communist left doing to our society globally.  And when Trump is in office again, if any form of democratic voting system is allowed to happen, people are going to pick Trump, and then Democrats are going to have to be punished for what they did to not only Trump but America in general.  They have openly plotted the destruction of our country, and they must pay for what they did.  And it doesn’t matter how much pain it causes them.  They should have thought about all that before they did what they did.  And compassion for their pain will only make society worse.  

Merrick Garland has been found in contempt of Congress, the same charge they are putting Steve Bannon in jail for, along with Peter Navarro, who is already there.  These were respected members of the Trump White House.  The communist left may not have liked them, but they were “democratically” picked, so nobody who speaks against that process of society picking their representatives and then working actively to punish their political opponents once they gained office can claim they are working for a “democracy.”  Such hypocrisy only fuels the anger against those advocates for such injustice in the wake of the picks of a free society.  Because, in essence, nothing is free in such a world controlled by totality and ruthless authority.  Essentially erasing the exploits of every war won or fought over time by the depraved menaces of scandal and evil.  For every family who has lost a loved one to war, these antics are spitting on the graves of those lost as a reminder that these forces of destruction are in control of our government and are doing whatever they must to hold that power at every expense.  But in so doing, they have lost any reference to public support, even by people who may have otherwise voted for them by choice.  The disrespect for the very system of government that indicates a government by choice has now had that mask ripped away, and people are poised to vote for Trump to remind Democrats that communism is not the government we are going to put up with.  And our elections still matter.  While the communist left wants to desperately when the sentencing for Trump occurs on July 11th, 2024, throw him in jail and hope revenge never comes to them. 

They started all this, now they are worried about the pay back.

Steve Bannon has to report to jail on the 1st of July, so all these dates match up to a vast conspiracy by a communist government, globalist in its reference but every bit as communist as China currently is.  The judicial goal is to remove the critical pieces of the political chess board during the final stretch of the election and hope the public will let them get away with it with such a show of force.  But unlike China and other places in the world where globalists have put communism into the management of their controlled societies, voting is still somewhat free in America.  They do not have the control they had in 2020 when they stole the election and pushed Trump out of office even though people picked him as their representative.  They still have to pay for that crime.  And COVID still has to be paid for; lots of people in our government killed many people, including many of our loved ones.  There were a lot of terrible things done, and there are lots and lots of people who need to go to jail, and even worse, from what we know, they did.  Let alone what we have yet to discover.  And now that they have gone too far with Navarro, Bannon, and Trump himself, they have only themselves to blame when justice comes looking for them.  Because right now, that’s where people are.  They are going to pick Trump.  And if that doesn’t work, they will resort to more ruthless measures because that is their right, and obligation.  That is why I say, for the sake of all humanity, that Old Testament ruthlessness on the law and order front is the only option.  It is the most humane way to deal with the crimes committed against us all.  Such crimes must be frustrated in the future, and if they aren’t punished, they will be inspired to commit crimes all over again.  And we can’t have that.

Rich Hoffman

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The Revenge of 2024 Will Be Delicious: We played by the rules, and now they will have no choice but to match it

We’re at that point where it’s time to benefit from many good decisions made under challenging circumstances.  And to pay ourselves back for sticking with the Constitution and not being drawn offside by truly malicious characters.  But we played by the rules, even in the face of massive crimes in 2020, election fraud, and the distribution for purposeful terrorism, Covid from a Wuhan lab in China that killed millions of people, we stood by due process; Trump got on his airplane after leaving the White House, and we stuck to the rule of law even though most of us knew that the law had been manipulated to benefit the cheaters.  It was rough, and we had to endure it gracefully.  It certainly was not easy.  But we had to set up this particular election year of 2024.  In the process, we have rooted out many malicious characters who would have otherwise remained hidden from our view.  What should have been Trump’s second term in office ended up being a terror that showed the world who has been running things behind the scenes because they had to show themselves to attempt to hold power.  And now that they have it, we have a real opportunity to make America great again with more than talk and campaign slogans.  But now the shoe is on the other foot.  The pendulum is swinging in the other direction.  And because we did everything right, it forced the other side to do the same, even though they knew they couldn’t afford anything but violence and chaos in protest.  Because they have cheated to stay in power, they don’t have a very deep bench, and the players they do have are all compromised beyond scrutiny.  And they won’t be able to hold up to what will happen next. 

I had to have some hard talks with many people in the cold early days of 2021 as Biden took office.  We all knew that there had been election fraud.  We had seen the precinct maps of the entire country and knew where the cheating had occurred with over counts on mail-in ballots.   You could see county by county all across the country, then there would be these sudden spikes in voter turnout and results for Biden in critical areas around metropolitan areas, such as Detroit, Phoenix, Philly, Milwaukee, and Atlanta, and everyone knew the cause.  And we watched the paid-for color revolutions before that, where leftist billionaires poured money into minority communities to inspire them to burn down buildings, desecrate historic monuments, and drive discontent all over the nation.  All this happened after the COVID lockdowns, where genuinely evil and malicious people walked into Trump’s office in the White House and urged him to shut down the entire economy to prevent the spread of COVID-19.  We were all justified in picking up arms and taking down the many criminals who had done America wrong in 2020 to steal an election and to unleash an artificial virus engineered for its task to create the opportunity for stolen power.  Many people didn’t want to see Trump leave office in those dark days but to call in the military to prevent the takeover of our country by these globalists advocating open communism, what else were we supposed to do?  It was like the communist revolution in St. Petersburg many years ago, which was now happening in America.  And our American media, including Fox News, was in on it all, and people were lost as to what to do, and they wanted to fight.

I think I stopped many small wars from breaking out that winter and it wasn’t easy.  I had to convince people to let the process play out even though I wanted to lash out myself.  Every movie and book we had ever consumed in entertainment culture told us that the only thing to do was to grab our guns and go hunting for bad guys who had infiltrated our government and to remove them violently.  But we talked against it because there was a bigger prize.  We had a perfect opportunity to exploit these losers for what they were, and we could stand by the rule of law in the face of great adversity and lead by example, which is what we did.  It was challenging and excruciating.  But we have endured it, and now here we are.  Our time for revenge is at hand, and the victory will taste delicious.  It’s our time to watch the other side wiggle in the trap they set for themselves, and there is no reason for us to feel sorry for them for what’s coming because they did it to themselves.  They can only blame themselves, the person who looks back at them in the mirror, for what they have become.  They hoped to provoke us into a mountain of mistakes, and because we didn’t take the bait, they had no choice but to play the game the same way.  And now, after all these years of treating Trump and the rest of us with every kind of abuse of the law that they could get by with, it’s time to pay for all those crimes, and no amount of crying will alleviate them from justice.  Now, they will face the same kind of decisions we had to make, but they aren’t as good as we are, so they don’t have the intellectual means to survive.  Their defeat this time around will crush them and their Marxist, globalist movement with it, and our victory will be better than if we had fought for it with guns and the points of knives. 

They will have no choice but to follow the rule of law, leave the White House, certify the election, and deal with all the policy changes Trump will make toward capitalism in the coming months.  And that is something I couldn’t have said we would have had with a typical Trump second term.  The world was on fire then, and the enemy was desperate.  And we had to play it out.  We needed these last four years to empty their weapons and expose them for what they were.  If Trump had been in the White House, it would have just been another term of a media circus.  People needed to see what Joe Biden and the gang were about, and the pressure forced them to reveal it all.  And since then, the World Economic Forum and their central bankers of doom have been exposed for the actual insurrection of our country that they had long planned and committed to.  And to hold power, they won’t be able to afford to live within the confines of the rule of law.  But they aren’t warranted to unleash their violence, which is their only means of achieving power because they don’t have any public support as a minority terrorist organization.  That is what the Democrat Party is, after all: a terrorist organization for globalists and insurrectionists who want America to be crushed off the world stage forever.  But because we didn’t take the bait, we exposed them in ways they weren’t prepared for.  And the revenge that is coming will be fantastic to witness.  We’ll achieve it because we stayed with the rule of law and did not allow ourselves to be pulled into a nation-ending battle, which we would have otherwise given them justification for violence and malice.  By sticking with the rule of law, they have no choice but to do the same, which they can’t afford to do.  It’s a wonderful paradox. 

Rich Hoffman

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When Government Causes the Problems They Want to Protect You From: Frock Cameras are dangerous

I’ve had many people try to convince me that the upcoming Liberty Township Police Levy, which will be voted for in the March primary election, is something I should support. I have a lot of friends who are in government who really think things like police are essential to the viability of a community, and the more police you have, the better your community. My argument is that I have seen too much abuse from this local group, and I don’t see them with enough to do. When I see the police in my community, they are sitting in their cars because there isn’t much to do on radio calls. My argument is that I can understand a few police officers for a community our size, but that the 30-40 they propose, along with a lot of administrative staff, is too expensive and isn’t worth the money. But that’s not even the worst of it. I have seen enough over these last few years to give me a lot of pause on any government expansion, especially after Covid. When the police say they are there to help and to keep our community safe, we have found that the most dangerous element we deal with is government radicalism. And during Covid, we came close to checkpoints of health enforcement and door-to-door raids for nongovernment compliance. And when you have some loser like Biden in the White House, I’m not too keen to hire the people who would be most likely to harass me. And yes, on Christmas Day this year, I came close to a swatting situation where police had gathered in front of my home, looking like they were preparing for a raid until I went out and engaged them, which was when they drove off. In this political environment, especially, more government workers do not make sense.

The corruption of law enforcement is horrendous

And with the same kind of zeal that communities are always asking for more police, we have had frock cameras imposed upon us, always with good intent. But that’s how it always starts: the need for safety and security. In case you haven’t noticed, and I have, cameras are all over our communities these days, especially in Fairfield, even in West Chester, and areas outside of the I-275 loop around Cincinnati. The cameras we are told are there for our safety, to record the comings and goings of cars in our neighborhoods that can track them in case something happens. And who doesn’t want an always eye in the sky to record a license plate number for a hit and run? The argument for the cameras is that they are always watching and will keep us safe from criminals who roam around at night looking for soft targets to harass. Yet all that sounds good until you realize that all this nonsense is code words for lazy police work and the building of an extensive government network that can track everything you do at all hours of the day. I have been involved in fighting back against these cameras in a couple of different places since about a decade ago when they were first introduced. One argument in Lincoln Heights was in partnership with WLW radio, where police were giving people tickets in the mail for speeding along that corridor of I-75. And again, at the toll bridge in Louisville, Kentucky, toll fines were mailed to people just for driving across the bridge. There were no toll booths to pay; they just took a picture of your license plate and sent you the bill in the mail. It was pretty scandalous then, but it has become common practice over the years. That’s how they do it in Florida, around the Orlando area. I tried to pay the toll at a toll booth, and the stupid cameras still sent me a bill. Technology has been introduced to cover up lazy police work and employee engagement.

It’s a trick being used more and more against political enemies

It always starts with the pitch from some tech firm that has a new technology or a vaccine for a virus that the government hasn’t yet made in a lab in China under the direction of Dr. Fauci and other expert class malcontents. And good-intentioned people like local trustees start nodding their heads yes to the promise of more security for their communities. That is until you realize that many of the dangers in our communities are caused by government, such as the current lousy border policy by the Biden administration, which has allowed criminals and cutthroats of all kinds from drug cartels to roam freely and violate our safety. The government causes problems with terrible political policy, and then they turn to more government intrusion to cover up all their mistakes. We end up paying for all of it and, in the process, lose vast amounts of our freedoms. And they sell it to us by saying, “We would never abuse our power,” and one day, you are getting a bill in the mail for that traffic light you went through as it turned from yellow to red a bit too quickly. The frock cameras give police a chance to enforce the law from some rec room somewhere doing even less because A.I. and these cameras are doing most of the work for them. It always starts with good intentions and ends in more tyranny and abuses of power.

Do you really want people like this watching your every move, where you go and when, and with whom?

It’s not hypothetical; we saw it happen when an out-of-control government panicked by some global health police decided to shut down our communities and “shelter in place.”  When DeWine did that in Ohio, I ignored him and conducted my life.  Luckily, at that time, I knew the sheriff of my community and knew he was not in agreement with the governor and wasn’t going to enforce the unjust lockdown policies, which came straight from a globalist loser by the name of Richard Hatchett, who started that mess.  A lot of political figures were suckered into enforcing unconstitutional laws.  If such a thing happened again, the cameras that were set up for our security would be there to tell on us every time we left our driveway, making it all too easy for a centralized authority to punish us for violating the mandate of a prominent government governor out of control and power hungry.  What started as good intentions for safety and security has become an ominous tyrant we can never turn off or escape.  Our local law enforcement suddenly isn’t the cops we know in our community but is A.I. in some data bank at the NSA who is plotting our every move and reporting it to our foreign and domestic enemies who are openly trying to overthrow the Constitution of the United States with international law.  And it all starts with more police levies and politicians who get suckered into saying yes to frock cameras.  It all sounds fine until you have to pay for it all, and you lose your freedoms for some greater good, as it’s determined by communists in the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization, which directly created our policies at the CDC and were enforced with authority by the Biden administration.  By putting up the cameras, the loss of local control of your law enforcement goes away, and soon, outside forces are watching your every move from any place on the planet.  And if you violate some policy they come up with on the back of a napkin, they’ll have the evidence that you did so for them to prosecute.  And at that point, you are a slave to their system of vile tyranny.  Yeah, no thanks.  I’m not supporting the Liberty Township Police Levy or their stupid frock cameras.  I think many people will be unfortunately suckered into voting for it.  And I’m sure everyone will regret it later.

Rich Hoffman

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